nobody ever uploads from me : (
― calstars, Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
a user i had previously banned for sharing nothing just messaged me: really nigga?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:12 (four years ago) link
Ah that'd give me flashbacks to 2007-2008
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:17 (four years ago) link
maybe they need to forward their damn ports
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
I only block (+mute) people for locking their tracks, won't bother browsing people who dl from me so don't encounter people with 0 files shared.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 February 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
c&p'd from the necrobumped thread:
soulseek has been so completely flaky over the last week or so, whenever downloading one file will go and then the rest will just sit there and never start. i know enough that i'm not the only one having this problem but there's no acknowledgement of the problem or any eta on fixing it. i know soulseek is literally old enough to vote at this point and at some point i guess i should just let it go...
in the meantime here are some messages i got recently from someone else having the same problem
(9:37:19)(redacted) re start your files(11:56:17)(redacted) he y mushroom restart your files
(my slsk username is the same as my ilx username. it is not "mushroom".)
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
uh lol @ "he y mushroom". I've been having the same problem lately, and at first I thought it had something to do with the uploaders' preferences (like the way some users will only let you download 10 files at a time before bumping you to the back of their queue). I realized, though, that when I right click on the non-starting files and select "retry downloads", they'll generally start right up. maybe you've tried that already without success?
another issue I've noticed is that when I right click on a file in my search results and click "browse folder", the folder that pops up in the user's library is often several folders above (or below?) the actual file location. I'll be looking for a Krisma album and the highlighted folder will be something by Kris Kristofferson, and I'll have to either scroll up to the right folder or select "browser folder" again to get to the right place. it's a minor gripe, but it's been going on for what seems like years. also sometimes when I right click on a single file and click "download folder(s)", the popup will say "requesting list of files in folder..." but the other files will never show up in the list.
but yeah, I should be thankful that slsk is still functional at all in 2020 and stop being such a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y28rUFvLXDc
― stop trying to make fetch the bolt cutters happen (unregistered), Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
only issue i've had is that
sometimes when I right click on a single file and click "download folder(s)", the popup will say "requesting list of files in folder..." but then totally crash. not sure if they have 50k files in that folder or something, but some users just can't be browsed that way
it remains amazing, as do i as a blazing beacon of ideal tagging
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
I had the same problem. Un- and reinstalled and it was fixed. Lost my userlist in the process, tho.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
ha, I just pay close attention to people's folder hierarchies and avoid downloading from them when it's obvious that their entire library is one megafolder called Justin's Music or whatever. I also avoid users with folders called Música OR Descargas because for whatever reason their files tend to be horribly mistagged or devoid of metadata. it's kind of hard to avoid when downloading Spanish indiepop, though
― stop trying to make fetch the bolt cutters happen (unregistered), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
(not sure why that OR is in all caps)
― stop trying to make fetch the bolt cutters happen (unregistered), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
i love música
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
yeah i have the same "browse folder" issue, i'm getting better at managing it though
my issues with downloading folders is that i don't get subfolders unless i browse someone's files first, otherwise i just get the dreaded "cd1" and "cd2" directories full of i-don't-know-what
mind you i have wound up being more careful when doing "download folder" precisely because of the continuing all-files-in-one-directory phenomenon; would be nice if some build figured out a way to manage that without crashing the client
and yeah, bad tagging is a continuing issue. i certainly perpetuate it because i don't keep my files cleaned and properly tagged, but few people seem to actually ban me so i'm probably at least doing the bare minimum
i guess i can try un- and re-installing the client. i "upgraded" to the 64 bit version today and it didn't change a thing. mostly i'm worried about my wishlist, which is large and immaculately curated.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
When I'll still use it...A friend was doing one of those Facebook things this week on his 10 favourite jazz albums. He posted two by Julius Hemphill, who I don't know at all. Checked Amazon, and both started at $100 (with the CD for one ~$700). So over to Soulseek. Otherwise, just the occasional song now.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
i too long for a reasonably priced reissue of dogon a.d.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:12 (three years ago) link
i thought they just did one?? in 2011??
― j., Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:28 (three years ago) link
kate, i downloaded a couple pretty obscure albums from you on slsk a couple months ago that i couldn't really find available anywhere else so thank you!
― Clay, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:36 (three years ago) link
people with massive "Music" folders with thousands of files in has been an issue for at least 18 years
I haven't really had any issues lately?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
I have unsorted folders for upcoming years, 1935-2015, sometimes with thousands of tracks inside, occasionally people try to download them and quickly cancel everything, sorry guys, in a decade or so they will all be nicely sorted.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 May 2020 08:39 (three years ago) link
I've been unable to see my wishlist or dl progress / transfers for over a year and I've just been sorta dealing with it. The Soulseek icon on my desktop will flash but I can't see what it's notifying me about, whether it's something that's come up on my (vanished) wishlist or someone trying to communicate with me via chat. The only way I know something has completed downloading is by searching the Soulseek folder on my desktop. I don't use slsk a ton so it's not a huge deal and is just something I've gotten used to but I bet it would drive some people crazy.
And yes, the users with one gigantic folder are anathema. Because of the situation I describe above, when I do accidentally select "download folder" and it's this, I no longer have any way of stopping or canceling the downloads, so I've had to construct a tedious and elaborate workaround wherein I go in and lock the corresponding folder on my browser so nothing can be added to it, as this is literally the only way I've found to avoid flooding my laptop with someone's entire music library. As a result I have a handful of locked folders in my Soulseek subfolder, variously called "singles," or "my music" or whatever and it's really annoying.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
(they remain there because if I unlock them and try to trash them, they reappear every time I open soulseek and commence filling up again)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
That's very odd. Have you tried reinstalling slsk? I quit using wishlist ages ago, I remember a friend tried it for the first time and put "beatles" on his wishlist, had to delete and reinstall then too, it just crashed whenever you opened it.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
this is of course in the days before "beatles" was a blocked search term
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
I have literally none of these problems, and I've got it running on Linux and Windows (different machines obv)
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
Have you tried reinstalling slsk?
Several times. Same problem. It's a weird one.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Not encountered any of the problems above. My only gripe would be that for the last couple of weeks the search results are way less?
Am I imagining this or did they used to have a connect/disconnect to server button, and you could connect to a different server and get other search results?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
in 2020 one of my favorite ways of discovering music is still searching on slsk for obscure tracks i like and checking out all the comps that theyve appeared on that show up in the search results, god bless this wonderful program
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 21 May 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
xp -- check your router settings
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
firewalls too, seems to be less of a problem than it once was though.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
fwiw the version of Slsk I'm running on my Windows laptop is quite old, 2017.2.20, maybe these problems people are having are due to bugs in newer versions?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
yeah, installing an old version might be an idea.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
i was running 2017.02.20 before
funnily enough once i connected to my vpn things started to work fine... i did see the site did recommend i turn off my isp's firewall software, but i'm not necessarily going to turn off my isp's firewall just because some piracy site on the internet tells me to, y'know? i am not exactly happy with the notion that the major american isp i use seems to have determined soulseek to be a "malicious site" that needs to be blocked and that i don't know a way to tell it "yeah no go ahead and let that through". but fuck it, that's a classic first world problem, right?
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
i only buy a new computer when i'm absolutely forced to, just so i don't have to deal with all the port forwarding bullshit again
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
the weird thing there is, on this laptop I haven't bothered doing the ports. they are CLOSED! yet everything still works fine, I get lots of search results and don't have any trouble downloading anything. I'm using the 2018.1.30 linux version here.
I'm not actually sharing any files on this laptop though, it's my ancient spare one but the screen is broken on my other laptop that has shared files on it, I just use this in the living room and if I feel like downloading something. I get banned every now and again but don't care because I can just cue it up on the other laptop if that happens.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
yeah you can still download with closed ports -- can't upload tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
ah fair enough then
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
i try downloading an album, first song works but everything after that stays queued (retry download doesn't work).
thought i'd update or reinstall my client but i can't access slsknet.org for some reason.
;_;
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Monday, 8 June 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
Huh, that's weird. Are you on Windows or Mac?
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 June 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
closed ports also limits search results ime
― brimstead, Monday, 8 June 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
my old mac is the og downloader but i have a newer windows laptop.
switched to my mobile hotspot, found slsknet no problem. i guess xfinity blocks it, rad. turns out i had already installed it on my new machine though lol and *sigh* works fine.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Monday, 8 June 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
lately all my download attempts are immediately listed as 'aborted' in red. every now and again they'll be 'queued' for a few minutes and then aborted.
all ports open. music shared. dunno what's going on.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
are you on comcast? they implemented some "protection" program that blocks soulseek transfers. you have to turn it off for soulseek to work - i think there's more info about it on soulseek's homepage. i was wary about doing it too, because it's called something like "advanced threat protection", but since turning it off a month ago i haven't had any problems.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 July 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
No probs here, but we're on Verizon
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 July 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
i'm in the uk. on plusnet, which is owned by BT.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 July 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
ahhhh i fixed it. after a looong way round with UPnP and all kinds of bullshit. it had nothing to do with that. my Downloads folder was set to a folder that doesn't exist any more! BLEAH
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 July 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Nice!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 13 July 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
What does it mean when the little icon in the top left is red and nothing works--is the site down?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 04:39 (three years ago) link
you aren't connected? soulseek itself isn't down.
― visiting, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link
ive been introducing zoomers to slsk, it's my contribution to youth culture
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
I guess I wasn't connected--resolved itself after a couple of tries.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link